Hekla Just Wants Attention

In today’s news, Hekla seems to be rumbling again as reported by RÚV and others. Volcanoes are just a fact of life in Iceland, and people don’t seem to get too worked up about it. You do the best you can to prepare for it, and get out of the way when nature takes her inevitable course.

There’s a lot in this news story, and I ended up looking up many of the words, which I’m happy to share with you to save you some time 🙂 Let’s look at some of the more interesting phrases:

“…ekkert hafa komið fram sem bendi til þess að eldgos sé að hefjast”

“…nothing has happened to indicate that an eruption is beginning…”

benda til þess að comes up fairly frequently, from the verb að benda, which by itself just means to show or point something out:

“Víðir says that some tourists have been in the vicinity of Hekla but not on the mountain itself. He advises against people hiking on the mountain as things currently stand. Hekla has erupted four times since 1970.”

You could also translate eins og staðan sé núna as in the present situation I think.

There are a couple of conjugations of vara, the one that means warn as in this excerpt is: